What Happened to the Indus Valley Civilization?

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[soham]

Corrections:
There weren't small towns and villages and two large cities - Harappa and Mohan Jo Daro. There were many more cities. Harappa and Mohan Jo Daro were not even the largest cities of the SSS (Sindhu aka Indus Saraswati Sabhyata aka civilisation), let apart the only two large cities. Rakhigarhi is the largest city. Other major ones include Kalibangan, Lothal, Dholavira etc.

[jonswap]

The binary system was used for measuring indivisible weights on scales - for example weights of gemstones because it requires the minimum numbers of weights. The decimal system was used for divisible quantities i.e. volumes where measuring cups could be reused and counted on fingers. It is believed that they also invented octal (base 8) and hexadecimal (base 16) by grouping binary digits into threes or fours for brevity.

[Sudip_Sarkar_Charles_Edwards]

I stopped watching when he said two big cities. Apparently he didnt know about kalibangan and lothal, bigger than harappa and mohenjodaro.

[tarunch]

Disappearance of the inhabitants of Indus Valley Civilization (IVC) without leaving a clue seems to be as mysterious as the disappearance of Dinosaur from the surface of the earth, which is believed to have occurred due to dropping of a giant size meteor on the surface of the earth. Likewise, just imagine what would happen if a giant size meteor from the outer space dropped on the very source of the 'Indus River System' that flows out from glaciers around the Kailash mountain range of the Himalayas. The devastation caused by that impact would be sudden leaving no breathing time for the inhabitants for a gradual relocation as to leave behind clues. The instant deluge must have carried with it enormous amount of fertile silt at to completely bury the entire valley. The only survivors would be some traders and merchants who would have been far away to Mesopotamia on business trip-- only to find upon returning that their towns have sunk under the silt. So sad! But that paved the way for the Aryans to migrate and settle down there and initiate a 'rich agriculture village-based Vedic civilization' two hundred years later . (1700 BCE to 1500 BCE is the blank period in-between IVC and Vedic civilizations. Similarly the blank period between disappearance of Dinosaur and appearance of Primates is the order of 2 million years). Geologists need to explore any possibility of a meteor impact on the glassier.

[bob_greene]

when the narrator spoke of the bathhouses, i immediately thought of a conversation I had w/ a female from Iceland; she made it sound like bathing was much more than hygiene to her culture; as I recall her saying, "it's part of our religion"; perhaps some Vikings or early Russians were the Indus valley raiders

[SivaguruP-oc]

The graffiti symbols of both harappan civilization and keeladi in tamilnadu look similar. We can get the clue and decipher the indus script.😊

[allahdinosamo]

The last attack on this civilization occurred in 1947 and has proved fatal . The alians from every direction have occupied the cities first belonged to Sindhi people. A great chunk of Sindhi Hindus were forcibly evacuated to India . Now Sindh has only archaeology to explore the world . All aspects of life that indicate a civilization have been eradicated in this land .

[hydroxy]

Climate change, reduced rainfall, dry, drought, migration to the east, settle at Saraswati river fertile plain, emerging Vedic Civilisation

[roshanchachane]

Many factual errors in the videos. The Saraswati Sindhu Sabhyata had many big cities, bigger than Harappa and Mohenjodaro

[i-m-alien]

why jain people dont have their own country....? is the ans to your question

[abc_cba]

Tbh, modern Indians have nothing to do with Indus Valley Civilization.

Most of the sites we have in India were later Indus Valley Civilizations.

We neither speak that undeciphered language, not does any of our Vedas or Puranas mentioned the Indus Vallet Civilization.

Nor have we ever had the systematic drainage system like they had, if that was the case the public 💩 that our people do wouldn't have happened.

Even now, the seals they discovered are not proven to be of any Indian deity but for the sake of views many have just named it pashupati seal, which is not even true as per many archaeologists.

This would trigger an ego issue with our people who are not used to handling facts, hopefully this topic doesn't cause fights in the comment section.

Pakistanis on the other hand don't even claim their own native heritage, which is even more saddening.

That's just why I have huge respect for the Mayans(minus the human sacrifices) and I consider the Yellow River Civilization of China to be more refined and those people still have been continuing their heritage.

[ranjithkumarnagarajan]

Interesting! Indus valley civilization more related with Tamils only. because many excavation recently in Taminadu, graffities reviled resemblance of signs, mother god devotion, buffalo, Jallikattu game, building construction, measuring system and more.

[Dawah_Help]

They became the GENETIC & geographical locals i.e. PAKISTANIS & a tiny portion of Bharatis (old Punjab, Rajasthan & Gujarat).
Later on the derivative culture was adopted by those without GENETIC connections to the IVC.

[mustafanisar]

Thank you for this video. Indus Valley Civilization was taught to us in school as part of Pakistani heritage, especially Mohenjodaro and Harappa. We were taught that the invading Hindu Aryan warriors wiped it out. I think that hypothesis is now being challenged. I was initially surprised to see Indians claiming it as part of their heritage. It does make sense since there are some sites in India. This civilization harkens back to a time where borders didn't exist and religion played a much smaller role in identity and culture.

[RemusKingOfRome]

According to OzGeographics, an asteroid hit the Indian ocean about 5, 000 years ago, sending a giant tidal wave north to India. This would have effected coastal dwellers. j

[Pakiza-Ali]

Mohenjo Daro, Harrapa were largest Indus sites - as taught in Pakistan. Then then then ia the pre-Indus site such as Mehrgarh fond in west Pakistan only few miles from Afghan border.

[jayasurya]

It is written very clearly in the Daritriya Samhita that the people of Indus Vally went to Kashmir to attend the Marriage ceremony of Lod Shiva. Earthquake jolted Indus Vally during their stay in Kashmir due to which all of them went to soudhi Arabia and became Arabs.

[yahqappu]

It was a Tamizh Samana Tantra Aaseevagam civilization...

[rudelas]

I appreciate your lesson; however, that BCE and CE bullshit is really offensive and hypocritical. We all know whatever the hell eras we are talking about are based on Jesus. So please cut the crap, and stop glorifying useless and imbecilic political correctness. Thanks.